SPOTLIGHT

Conference negotiating treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons notes revised indicative timetable

Advanced unedited Indicative Timetable (26 – 30 June)

Conference Concludes First Reading of Draft Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons

Focus on obligations to assist explosion victims, as conference continues negotiations on treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons

High Representative’s remarks to the event , “CWC 1997-2017: Progress, Challenges, and Reinforcing the Global Norm against Chemical Weapons”

As second session continues, Member States work to improve draft text of treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons

As negotiations continue on nuclear weapons prohibition treaty, speakers declare that all States parties destroy existing nuclear arsenals

World Free of Nuclear Weapons More Urgent than Ever, UN Disarmament Official Tells Delegates Negotiating Nuclear Weapons Treaty

Frequently asked questions on the draft convention on the prohibition of nuclear weapons

DISARMAMENT IN THE NEWS

Imaging drones to spot signs of explosive chemicals leaking from landmines

UNFOLD ZERO interviews UN General Assembly President

Project to connect American youth with Atomic Bomb survivors (Hibakusha) winding down

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Showing Hiroshima’s Reality

FEATURED CONTENT

2017 Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

Website for the UN Conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons

Disarmament Education

UN Report on Military Expenditures

UNODA UPDATE

National Round Table on the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004)

Mongolian authorities review measures to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to non-State actors

Academy Award-winning actor and film producer Michael Douglas visits High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu

UNODA’s regional centre in Lima and OAS provide regional platform for States in Latin America and the Caribbean to engage in open debate on preventing WMD proliferation to non-State actors

UN Disarmament Commission adopts by consensus “Practical confidence-building measures in the field of conventional weapons”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

For Member States: New deadlines and procedures for the processing of the reports of the Secretary-General on disarmament issues

Information for non-governmental organizations and their representatives wishing to participate in the 2nd session of the UN Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, Leading Towards their Total Elimination, 15 June – 7 July 2017

EVENTS

May 15 - June 30, 2017

Conference on Disarmament Part II

Geneva, Switzerland

June 15 - July 7, 2017

UN Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to prohibit Nuclear weapons, leading towards their total Elimination (second session)

New York, USA

June 28 - 30, 2017

68th Session of the Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (closed meeting)

New York, USA

July 10 - 14, 2017

Group of Governmental Experts on the Operation and Further Development of the UN Standardized Instrument for Reporting Military Expenditures (third session) (closed meeting)

Geneva, Switzerland

July 31 - August 11, 2017

High-level fissile material cut-off treaty expert preparatory group

Geneva, Switzerland

July 31 - September 15, 2017

Conference on Disarmament Part III

Geneva, Switzerland

August 21 - September 1, 2017

CTBTO Working Group B, 49th session

Vienna, Austria

September 4 - 6, 2017

Seventh Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM)

Geneva

September 11 - 15, 2017

IAEA Board of Governors

Vienna, Austria

September 11 - 15, 2017

Third Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)

Geneva